bête du Gévaudan

In the remote mountains of 18th-century France, something inhuman hunts the roads and villages of Gévaudan. For three terror-filled years, a creature of unknown origin stalks the countryside, leaving a trail of mangled bodies, mostly women and children working in the fields. The king sends his best hunters. Local peasants form armed militias. Church bells ring to warn of its approach. Yet nothing stops the beast. A century later, popular novelist Élie Berthet transforms this haunting historical nightmare into a gripping tale of rural terror, mistaken identity, and dark secrets buried in the Languedocian hills. Who, or what, was the Beast of Gévaudan? The question that has haunted France for two centuries remains as unsettling as ever in this atmospheric recreation of one of history's most enduring unsolved mysteries.